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Monday, 31 October 2016

Hello
everyone, Version
0.3.27 of Newlife is finished and I've released it on Patreon.
Early-access Patrons can find it in the creations section here. The changelog is below.The previous versionwill be going public soon. I currently don't have access to the public version of 0.3.26 so I won't be able to upload it today. I'll make it available later this week or, if there proves to be issues with getting that version, I'll upload the patron one.As usual, saved files & templates from older versions probably won't work with newer ones. For
new players - just use one of the links to the right to get a zipfile containing Newlife. Once unzipped, you'll see a folder containing .jar and .exe files. Either one of these will run the game.For
either version you'll need to have Java installed. A lot of programs
use Java so you might well already have it. If the jar shows up as an
unrecognised file type, then you probably don't. In that case you can
get it from http://www.java.com/. The
exe should tell you if you don't have the right version on your
computer, but you'll still need to install java to run the game.There's a guide for new players here which includes some troubleshooting tips for installation & downloading.This version was particularly annoying to implement due to a combination of sickness, writing difficulties and overoptimistic planning. The main addition is the ability to play strip-blackjack as a party game. You can read the rules in-game by choosing the appropriate action when the scene first starts.This scene is by some distance the largest one to be added to the game - more than a third larger than the most recent sex scene and around 4.5 times the size of the "spin the bottle" one. While this would normally be something for me to be proud of, in this case it looks very much like bad planning. Despite its huge size in the code, the scene doesn't in my opinion provide enough benefit to gameplay to justify the time involved in writing it. The fundamental cause is NPC-NPC interaction, and that's something I should really know by now has a tendency to become unmanageably large, so I guess I can only apologise for this. I'll try to learn the lesson this time and aim to do better in the future: really I should be aiming for new content to be similar to the original stuff with a strong focus on PC-NPC interaction and minimal interactions between NPCs.

Here's the full changelog:Major changes & additions:

Added
a new party game: Strip blackjack, aka the most annoying scene to
write ever. This is available when starting a sexy game at the house
party: you'll either get this one or spin-the-bottle with a 50%
chance of each. Whereas previously you could only play a sexy game
once per party, you can now play each different one once. If you've
already played one of the games and you choose to play a sexy game
again then you'll automatically get the one you didn't play before.

Minor additions & bugfixes:

Fixes
to text issues. Thanks to Cubano, Megh and Kayla for reporting
problems they found.

The
NPC added in the last release can now be a custom NPC. Use the
INNOCENT_SALES_COLLEAGUE trait to mark them as such – female NPCs
only. The female custom NPC guide has been updated to reflect this.

Fixed
a bug with the “tell her to show herself” action reported by
Secondarian where the conditions for removing panties and lower-body
clothing were reversed, potentially leading to some bizarre
situations.

The
long action description will now scroll to the top when an action is
selected: previously it would scroll to the bottom which meant the
player had to scroll it up to read descriptions from the start.